At this point I feel so much has taken place and if she leaves now she did fulfill a good purpose made the Nation aware of the serious situation we are in and to pay attention.
When my husband was dying I keep getting mixed messages and was burn out today I see on the net what kind of hospital my husband was in...today he is with the Lord and like he would say you can't cry over split milk!
I WAS NOT AWARE MY HUSBAND DIED IN Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
The National Consensus Project (NCP), comprised of
· American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM)
· Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
· Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)
· Last Acts Partnership
· National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO),
announces in a press release the publication of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care. These guidelines are to be the standard for palliative care services across the country. The guidelines acknowledge the support of
· Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
· City of Hope National Medical Center
· Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care
· The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast
· Massachusetts General Hospital
· Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
· National Hospice Work Group
· National Institutes of Health, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center
· New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, Division of Nursing
· Palliative Care Center and Hospice of the North Shore
· San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care
· University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
· Vitas HealthCare
In an effort to define palliative care, the manual provides a diagram similar to the following diagram. The guidelines position palliative care opposite life-saving therapy, as shown here: http://home.earthlink.net/~joyinlife/
Two Decades to an American Culture of Death
How a handful of progressive foundations and quasi-government agencies
set out to provide equitable distribution of health care,
and in the process,
created a duty to die and a culture of death.
And how they hope to secure their legacy . . .
Featuring the collaboration of:
the Hastings Center, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF),
George Soros's Project on Death in America (PDIA), Institute of Medicine (IOM),
AARP, Choice in Dying, and a number of prestigious universities,
to name only a few.
I think that you did what you thought was best, and nothing should change that...you loved your husband, he died, he has gone on, and you have to live with that...rethinking what happened while he was dying, or where he was dying, is not good for you, at least that is my thought...
What is important, is that you did all that you could, the best that you could...